Call it outsider, self-taught, folk, primitive, indigenous or anything you want. Regardless, the artworks in the “Seeing Stories” exhibition at Colorado College’s I.D.E.A. Space represent some of the most recognizable examples of a 1990s art-world movement that redefined what it meant to be an “artist” and to be collectible. Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime paintings, 19th Century ledger drawings by the North Cheyenne and works by Henry Darger, John Muafangejo and Mose Tolliver, aka Mose T will all be on display.

Luckily for us, locally-based collector Mary Allen-Meilinger just so happens to have a large collection of Mose Tolliver’s artworks, which are on display at the “Seeing Stories” exhibition. Allen-Meilinger amassed her collection over while living in Montgomery, Alabama. For more information about her and Tolliver there’s an excellent and comprehensive article by the Independent’s Matt Schniper HERE.

Above, you can watch a guided audio-slide show of Tolliver images explicated by Allen-Meilinger.

Complete information on the gallery opening HERE.

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Your turn, 90s.

Big favorites here at KRCC for some time now, the GLS appear to be appearing at this May’s second annual Meadowgrass Festival. How about them cherries? Stay tuned.

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KRCC’s Lost & Found Web Radio, Jan. 29

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Miss Emily Brown – Septuagesima

Septuagesima is the maiden song on her new release, In Technicolor. The album is based on her grandmother Leanora’s journal from WWII. She was a stenographer with the Canadian Women’s Army Corps and started the journal in January 1945 in order to keep track of correspondence with her newly wed husband, Eddie. Septuagesima refers to one of her entries, referencing her living quarters in barracks with 90 other women and her dream of returning to Canada in the spring.

Jaron Eldon – Letter to Myself? (Three Visions of One Man) (Free Download)

Sabrina – Right Way

Sabrina is a singer-songwriter from Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father was a mariachi singer from Mexico, and her mother was a hula dancer from Hawaii. She began playing the piano at age five, followed by the violin at age seven. After over a decade of playing classical music, she picked up the guitar while attending college at the University of Southern California. Since then self-released her debut solo EP “The Anomaly” in March 2009. In October 2009 she launched a 60 day funding project on Kickstarter.com called “The LP Project: Help Sabrina Make an Album.” The goal: to raise $5,000 to help fund the recording of a full length album. She managed to raise over $5K and is set to record her debut LP in April 2010.

Vulpixic – Songbirds (Free Download)

pow wow! – Found (Free Download)

SoundRabbit – Diminished Returns (Free Download)

a song about history repeating itself. google “august 13, 1979″ and note the articles about the stock market crashing, the auto company ceo’s asking for bailouts, Jimmy Carter’s meeting with factory farmers and grocers to discuss inflating food prices, the oil drilling in colorado… and you’ll understand the lyrical content of this song.

Lovers Turn to Monsters – Fall

The Cat from Hue – As My Friend Would Say…

Jejune Tune – Super Hero (Free Download)

I think this might be the Serge Gainsbourg of Russia, or Destroyer. You can listen to the un-live/electronic version of this song at Mumiy Troll’s myspace page HERE while you wonder what it would be like if more indie-tron bands performed unplugged/a capella.

Local arts maven Kathleen Fox Collins takes us on a tour of what is certainly one of the most interesting and unusual homes in Colorado Springs. It was designed in the 1950s by the husband-and-wife architectural team of Gordon Ingraham and Elizabeth Wright Ingraham(Granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright) for the Mitguard family near the bluffs in Palmer Park. While the structure itself is an interesting example of local mid-20th Century modernism, it’s the truly bizarre finish work inside and outside that gives the home its amazing character.

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(image courtesy of the Broadmoor History Facebook page)

One of the many things we enjoy about sending the Big Something out into the world each day are the new stories and surprises that often come back. For example: No sooner had we published our “Then and Now” slide show and video on the Cheyenne Mountain Lodge last week than the Broadmoor sent us this series of photographs from the Lodge and a fascinating article from the Gazette Telegraph from June 20, 1926, opening day. Nestled among the florid descriptions of Spencer Penrose’s $100,000 mountaintop hotel is this fantastical tidbit:

Outstanding effects include gastroliths, “gizzard stones,” which are to be set into a cluster or rosette around one of the fireplaces. They are the gift to Spencer Penrose from Dall Deweese of Canon City and were found by him no long ago—sometime after his discovery of a bronto-saurus diplodocus… They are really stomach stones performing the same functions in the second stomachof the Saurian family as the stones in the gizzard of a turkey, goose, duck or chicken.

Even if we can’t see the stones in the picture of the fireplace above, this wonderful detail makes us all the more sad the Lodge no longer exists. We can only wonder what happened to the stones and other fixtures when the place was closed and then finally bulldozed in the late ’70s. Any other history from readers would be greatly appreciated in the comments. Meanwhile, here are more photos courtesy of the Broadmoor Hotel’s Archives. Many thanks to Beth Davis, Archivist, and Allison Scott, Director of Communications at The Broadmoor Hotel.

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